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In Reply to: Center Channel Hype posted by melmar on March 23, 2003 at 04:30:05:
I will agree with you about the center channel hype in one major regard and that is the fact that most people are trying to use the wrong speaker for the center channel.The center channel speakers being sold usually do not match up with the left and right channel speakers very well. Sure, they make sound, but the very designs they use with twice the amount of drivers in one speaker are going to throw off how they would match the others up front. That and many of them have a horizontal geometry rather than a vertical geometry used by the mains.
I suppose since it's claimed that the center channel does much more work as all the dialogue and bits of left and right stuff is sent there jusitifies plenty of manufacturers in making these impressive looking speakers; however, I believe the necessity of the extra drivers is wholly unnecessary and done for purely aesthetic rather than sonic reasons.
You would probably do better in matching the center channel to your mains and, as elsewhere mentioned, balancing the center channel properly so that it isn't blasting out the rest of the speakers. The goal of home theatre audio is getting all of the speakers to work together and not to have any one dominate the rest.
Of course if you prefer phantom mode, by all means, use it. Wasting money on extra speakers that aren't doing their job means fewer DVDs or other gear to try out!
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